Read the latest newsletter  about Honour Our River day at Halalt First Nation on the Chemainus River. Download here. Cut down a pharmacy? Penelakut elder Augie Sylvester writes a powerful letter about Echo Heights in the latest edition of Biodiversity Matters. Click here to download. A Real Treasure – Read Dr Nancy Turner's impressions of Echo Heights Forest. Click here to download pdf file. More about the Biodiversity Project here
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"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained.” –Henry Beston

Echo Heights maps click on images
EH photos

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 Walk through EH and you will understand more here
EH species ID –  A survey North Cow didn't think was needed! Read about the incredible diversity that needs to be saved. Download 1.8 MB pdf here. Read the press release here.
Biologist slams buffers – Dave Polster sent a letter to North Cow about inadequate buffers around sensitive areas (just like at Echo Heights!) more here

More of same? A full house heard that Echo Heights is, indeed, a special place and that North Cow seems hell-bent on making it  "more special". Read report –more– 

WE ALREADY SAID THAT! – Much of the information contained in the Madrone report was detailed by biologists Dave Polster and Sally Leigh-Spencer when the CRA hosted a public meeting at St Joseph's in June. No one from North Cowichan bothered to attend. Read more at: Information Rich and Polster's letter to North Cowichan way back in March '06 at: A biologist's view
 
 
Shop at EH! The Imagine Chemainus brochure in Jan. 2006 talked about "convenience store and local services". This, in a place North Cow has said is being built on smart growth principles! It's too far from town, so stores will have to be built! Sheeesh! (Click on pic for info)

Are the Chemainus Murals a Hit or a Myth? here

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